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The Mystery of Mercy Close. Grown Ups. Keyes remained sober from that point forward. After treatment, Keyes returned to London and began writing novels. Shortly before her suicide attempt, she had written a few short stories.
While she did not initially intend to write a novel, she had decided to send her short stories to a publisher, Ireland's Poolbeg Press. In a letter she enclosed, she mentioned that she had begun work on a novel one that did not yet exist.
The publisher was impressed and asked to see some chapters of her novel so Keyes quickly composed four chapters of what became Watermelon. Of the novel, Keyes told Pallister of the Herald , "It poured out, and I do feel it was already written in some locked room in my head, and all I had to do was turn the key. Claire takes her baby and returns to her family home in Dublin, meets another man, and considers her future. A hit in Ireland, Great Britain, and the United States, the book was written in an informal style that many readers found appealing.
Soon after the publication of Watermelon , Keyes' own life continued to improve. She married an Englishman, Tony Baines, on December 29, Keyes was able to quit her accounting job in , and the couple moved to Ireland. They eventually settled in Dublin. While Keyes found it hard to write full time, she was able to turn the situation into a positive one. Though she was worried that she could not duplicate the success of Watermelon , Keyes' second novel was even more popular than the first.
The title character is in her mid-twenties and has a very limited life. Lucy and three friends visit a fortune teller who makes several predictions, including that Lucy will be married within the year. Other predictions come true so Lucy believes in hers as well. Keyes uses this experience to examine the life of single women in London.
The book also features Lucy's father, an alcoholic, who is partially based on Keyes herself. Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married was later made into a part television series. The success of these two novels led to a bidding war between publishers over Keyes. She walked away with a very lucrative four-book deal from Penguin in the United Kingdom in Keyes proved her value with another successful book. Rachel's Holiday was a page epic that mirrored Keyes' own experience as an alcoholic.
The central character, Irish native Rachel Walsh, had been living the high life in New York City for about eight years. Suffering from low self-esteem, Walsh becomes addicted to cocaine and tranquilizers. Because of her addiction problems, her family takes her back to Ireland where she enters a well-known rehab clinic, the Cloisters. Though a dark story, the text was inflected with a dry sense of humor. Keyes continued to explore women's problems in 's Last Chance Saloon.
The book focused on three friends from childhood who are natives of Ireland and live in London and face many personal difficulties. The two women of the trio, Tara and Katherine, have difficulties finding boyfriends; Tara is over-weight, while Katherine keeps men at arm's length. Fintan, a gay man, shows his friends that there is more to them than superficial concerns as he struggles with cancer.
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